Usually when the owner of a professional sports team calls an unusual postseason press conference to review his team's season and uses words such as "unacceptable" and "dismal," other words such as "fired" and "new coach" follow.

But not in a Jeff Lurie Production.

Lurie made his pile of money in Hollywood. One wonders what would happen to a director who botched a Lurie film as thoroughly as Andy Reid did the Philadelphia Eagles' 2011 season.

Based on Tuesday's ringing Lurie endorsement of Reid and his team's front office, the response might be to nominate him for an Oscar.

"This season was without question the most disappointing season since I’ve owned the team," Lurie said.

No doubt.

Reid has produced losing teams before, of course, but none of those teams carried the massive expectations that the 2011 squad did, and none failed so spectacularly ... and none have escaped accountability as decisively as Reid and his merry men.

Lurie was not expected to fire Reid, or general manager Howie Roseman, or team president Joe Banner, Tuesday, and he didn't. Somehow Lurie thinks their leadership represents the best chance for the Eagles to win a championship in 2012.

He might be right. Continuity is usually a good thing in pro sports. Reid's close relationship with Michael Vick represents perhaps the best reason to keep him. There was that 6-2/4-0 finish, for what that's worth (not much).

Yet Lurie's stand-pat attitude seems especially odd when he pinpointed the primary reason why he believed 2011 was a flop.

"I think maybe there was a miscalculation in terms of implementing big scheme changes in a lockout situation," Lurie said. "To me, I don't know why, I would've thought we would've been able to, during the abbreviated training camp and preseason, adapt to some of those schematic changes. They were bold changes, but clearly the team was not jelling and maximizing those scheme changes in the first half of the year. That’s one that comes to mind right away. I would hold everybody accountable that's responsible for the scheme changes, yet there’s a payoff once it takes effect and you jell and have it.

"I think we saw tremendous benefits in the two lines, offensive and defensive, as the season went on and we will benefit from that as we go forward. But the first half of the season, it’s just ridiculously unacceptable to have a fourth-quarter lead and blow all those games. And if we just blew one less game, we’d be playing Atlanta next week, so that’s where it’s at."

I have been making that argument since the Eagles hired Castillo -- maybe not a bad idea (though it turned out to be), but a terrible idea with the lack of a regular off-season -- and it was fascinating to hear Lurie say the same thing.

Yet Lurie believes Reid is the coach that gives his franchise its best chance to win a Super Bowl.

On what evidence? By 2011's, not even close.

So Reid is back and in, Lurie confirmed, full control; he will decide Castillo's, and everybody else's, fate. Reid will keep singing the same old song, citing the second-half improvement and 4-0 finish as evidence that Castillo and the rest have got it all figured out and all will be just dandy in 2012.

To have an owner see his team's problems so clearly and yet make no changes makes one wonder why.

Perhaps this is all about gold.

It's Lurie's money that Reid's 2011 boondoggle wasted so the temptation is to say the rich guy can do what he wants -- except that it's really the fans' money, the hapless, hopeful and honestly obsessed green-clad hordes who stump up hundreds of dollars each for tickets, parking and Vick replica jerseys.

Maybe that's all Lurie cares about. Maybe he doesn't want to fire Reid because of the two years left on the coach's contract (and if Reid goes so do a lot of other folks who wouldn't be cheap to replace).

Based on Tuesday, Lurie knows the Eagles' problems better than "We have to get better" Reid; better than Roseman, who can now get back to compiling his usual useless excess of sixth-round draft picks; and better than Banner, who's secure in that the Birds have no cap issues.

But then Lurie oddly bets that what flopped in 2011 will be a blockbuster hit in 2012.